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The caufe of uneafinefs. Ufed of fuch caules as are the 
effeCts of human conduit.—What remedy can be found 
again (t-grievances, but to bring religion into countenance, 
and encourage thofe who, from the hope of future re¬ 
ward, and dread of future punilhment, will be moved 
to juftice and integrity ? Swift. 
Te GRIEVE, v. a. [ grever , Fr. griever, Flemilh ; gra¬ 
vis, Lat.] To afflitt; to hurt.—For he doth not afflict 
willingly, nor grieve the children of men. Luke u\. 23. — 
Forty years long was I grieved, with this generation. Pf. 
•9— It repented the Lord that he had made man on earth, 
and it grieved him at his heart. Gen. vi. 
Griev'd at the thought, he vow’d his whole endeavour 
Should be to clofe thofe breaches. Rowe. 
To make forrow'ful.—When one man kills another, think¬ 
ing that he killed a wild bead ; if the fame man remem- 
bereth afterwards what he hath done, and is not grieved 
for the fadt, in this cafe he hath finned ; becaufe his 
not grieving is offenfive unto God, though the fad 
were merely befides his will. Perkins. 
To GRIEVE, v. n. To be in pain for fomething part ; 
to mourn; to forrow, as for the death of friends. It 
has fometimes at and fometimes for before the caufe of 
grief: perhaps at is proper before our misfortunes, and 
for before our faults.—Do not you grieve at this ? Shake/. 
With equal mind what happens let us bear; 
Nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care. 
Dry den. 
GRIE'VINGLY, adv. In forrow; forrowfully : 
Grievingly, I think, 
The peace between the French and us pot values 
The cod that did conclude it. Skakefpeare. 
GRIE'VOUS, adj. [gravis, Lat. or from To grieve,'] 
Afflictive; painful; hard to be borne.—Correction is 
f rievotts unto him that forfaketh the way, and he that 
ateth reproof Ihall die. Prov. xv. to.—Such as caufes 
forrow.—To own a great but grievous truth, though they 
quicken and Iharpen the invention, they corrupt the 
temper. Watts. —Exprefling a great degree of uneafi¬ 
nefs.—He durd not difobey, but fent grievous complaints 
to the parliament of the ufage he was forced to fubmit 
Clarendon.— Atrocious ; heavy ; 
It was a. grievous fault, 
And grievoufly hath Casfar anfwer’d it. Skakefpeare. 
Sometimes ufed adverbially in low language.—He can¬ 
not come, my lord ; he’s grievous fick. Skakefpeare. 
GRIE'VOUSLY, adv. Painfully; with pain: 
Wide was the wound, and a large lukewarm flood. 
Red as the rofe, thence guflied grievoufly. Spenfer. 
With difeontent; with ill-will.—Grittus perceiving 
how grievoufly the matter was taken, with the danger 
he was in, began to doubt. Knol/es. —Calamitoufly ; rni- 
ferably.—I fee how a number of fouls are, for want of 
right information, oftentimes grievoufly vexed. Hooker. — 
Vexatioufly; to a great degree of uneafinefs.—Houfes 
built in plains are apt to be grievou/y annoyed with mire 
ancLdirt. Ray. 
GRIE'VOUSNESS, f. Sorrow; pain; calamity.— 
They fled from the fwords, from the drawn fword and 
from the bent bow, and from the grievoufnefs of war. 
If. xxi. 15. 
GRIFAL'CO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Calabria Ultra : four miles 
wed of Squillace. 
GRIFAL'CO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of 
Naples, and province of Otranto : feventeeri miles fouth- 
ead of Otranto. 
GRIF'FEN, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Carinthia : four miles north of Wolkenmarck, and four¬ 
teen ead-north-ead of Clagenfurt. 
GRIF'FET (Henry), an eminent writer among the 
Von. IX. No. 563. 
G R I 2* 
Jefuits, born at Moulins in 1698. He became preacher 
to the king ; and after the abolition of his order retired 
to Brulfels, where he died in 1775. He publiflied a 
new edition of Father Daniel’s Hi dory of France, 17 
vols. 4to. Paris, 1756: to tiiis he fubjoined learn¬ 
ed and curious diflertatioris; and the Life of Louis 
XIII. which occupies three of the volumes. 1. A 
Trealife on the different Kinds of Proof employed 
in edablifhing Hidorical FaCts, 1769, 121110. a folicl 
and judicious performance. 3. Sermons, and other 
Works of Piety. 4. Latin Poems. 5. An edition of 
Avrigny’s Memoirs of Profane Hidory, 5 vols. 121110, 
1757, augmented and improved. 
GRIF'FIN, or Grif'fon, f. [This flvould rather be 
written gryfon, or gryphon-, gryps, ygvy ; but it is gene¬ 
rally written griffon. \ A fabied animal, faid to be ge¬ 
nerated between the lion and eagle, and to have the 
head and paws of the lion, and the wings of the eagle.— 
Of all bearing among thefe winged creatures, the griffin 
is the mod ancient. Peacham. 
GRIF'FITH, [C.Br. who has a great or firong faith.} 
A proper name of men. 
GRIG, f. [kriche, Bavarian, a little duck. ] It feems 
originally to have dignified any thing below the natural 
fize.—A fmall eel.—A merry creature, [Suppofed fron* 
Greek ; graculus faflivus, Lat.] 
Hard is her heart as flint or done* 
She laughs to fee me pale ; 
And merry as a grig is grown. 
And brifle as bottle-ale. Swift. 
GRIG'GIRY, an amulet or charm worn by the Man-- 
dingos, who inhabit a part of Africa fituated about one 
hundred miles to the northward of the Britifli colony at 
Sierra Leone. Thefe Griggiries are inclofed in little 
leathern cafes, to which thongs are fixed, and thus they 
are hung and condantly worn around.the neck or the 
waifi. A Mandingo poflefling one of them conceived 
himlelf fecure from all harm whatever. Dr. Ruffel 
fays, |that the Griggiry is written in the Arabic 
hand ufed in Barbary, and contains the name of God 
frequently repeated, with the addition of fome unintel¬ 
ligible characters. There are, it is aliened, certain 
perfons among this ignorant people, who have learned 
to take advantage of the general credulity; they are 
called Griggirymen, are regarded with reverence, and ob¬ 
tain riches and fame from thefe ftupid talifmans, fo cuf- 
tomary among the Arabians ; with whom, though fo 
far diltant, the Mandingos have frequent intercourfe. 
None of their charms, however, appear capable of fe- 
curing them from the horrid traffic of Chriftian flavery. 
GRIGNA'N, a town of France, in the department 
of the Drome, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
triCt of Montelimart: teiGmiles fouth-fouth-edft; of 
Montelimart. 
GRIGNO'L, a town of France, in the department of 
the Dordogne, and chief place of a canton, in the dil- 
triCtof Perigeux: ten miles fouth-fouth-wefl: of Perigeux. 
GRIGNO'LS, a town of France, in the department 
of the Gironde, and chief place of a canton, in the dil- > 
triCl of Bazas: three leagues fouth-eaft of Bazas, and’ 
four fouth of la Reolle. 
GRIG'UET BAY, a bay at the rtorth-eaft extremity 
of Newfoundland. Lat. 51. 40. N. Ion. 55. 24. W. 
Greenwich. 
To GRILL, v.n. [grille, Fr. a grate.] To broil on a 
grate or gridiron. 
GRIL'LADE, /. Any thing broiled on the gridiron. 
To GRIL'LY, v. a. This word fignifies to harafs ; to 
hurt : as we now fay, to roaji a man, for to teafe him: 
For while we wrangle here and jar. 
We are grilled all at Temple-bar. Hudihras. 
GRIM, adj. [gpumma, Sax.] Having a countenance 
of terror: horrible; hideous; frightful: 
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